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Anarchists should challenge nationalism while maintaining at least verbal solidarity with Jews and Palestinian Arabs. But to do this, anarchists also need to examine the multiple forms of nationalism involved in the Arab World at large and Palestine throughout its late-Ottoman Empire history up until today. We shouldn’t accept any nationalist frameworks; not the Zionist frameworks, not the PLO and the Arab League’s, not Fatah nor Hamas. What should anarchists say the slogan “Free Palestine” means? Does it mean the liberation of the State of Palestine from de facto Israeli control? Or does it mean the liberation of Palestine as a region from nationalist interests near and far? Can we imagine a free Palestine, as in an anarchist Palestine?